Is this the best the GOP can come up with?

12:50 PM,
Apr. 5, 2013

Eugene Robinson

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Eugene Robinson

I think I've figured it out. Republicans must be staging some kind of fiendishly clever plot to lure Democrats into a false sense of security.

That's the only possible explanation for some of the weirdness we're seeing and hearing from the GOP. The party must be waiting to come out with its real candidates and policy positions at a moment when unsuspecting Democrats are in the vulnerable position of being doubled over with laughter.

Why else, except for the entertainment value, would the party nominate former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford - he of Appalachian Trail fame, or infamy - in next ...